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We look like being in for a real treat this Saturday night when we stage the Openrace final of the Ladbrokes.Com Trophy over 540 metres.
The semi-finals were run last weekend, the first semi going to current hot dog Westmead Lola and the second to Mo’s Bullet.
This was Westmead Lola’s sixth win in her last seven races and the dog trained at Hove by Wayne Wrighting now looks set to have a real head-to-head battle on her hands this Saturday night when she meets Mo’s Bullet trained by Ricky Holloway.
We can only go on the two dogs’ semi-final win times and distances so with Lola having won her semi in 33.56 seconds by eight lengths and Mo in 33.61 seconds by eight-and-a-half lengths, on paper there is little to choose between them.
Both greyhounds managed to dictate early on in their semi races and had relatively trouble-free runs so this looks like being a cracking final.
Westmead Lola has won on her last four visits here and is a winner of Open races at no fewer than five different tracks so she is clearly a class act and will come into this final in the best form of her life having narrowly failed to make it a straight win sequence of seven races after finishing second at her home track at Hove on May 20.
In normal circumstances she would have gone to traps this Saturday as a hot favourite but in Mo’s Bullet she now seems to have a strong opponent to overcome.
Mo’s Bullet has only just turned two years and has had just 20 career races to date and last weekend’s win was her first here in four visits.
Her win here last Saturday was impressive and like Lola, our 540-metre distance seems to suit her.
We could now be looking at that all-important trap draw when evaluating who is going to win but this will not be available until today so I can not use this unfortunately in my assessment.
On the clock I can not see any of the other four finalist troubling the pair however if there were any trouble in the race, Time To Think trained at Crayford by Katie O’Flaherty could spoil the party particularly if drawn in trap one.
I will have to side with Westmead Lola in her current form who can also finish well from off of the pace if she is handy after the first two bends.